Media Releases and Events

Wheat Quality Australia Variety Downgrades July 2018

Wheat Quality Australia has confirmed the following three western zone wheat varieties are being..

2018 GRDC Grains Research Updates

View and download papers and presentations made at the 2018 GRDC Grains Research Updates on the ..

GIWA Noodle Wheat Outlook Western Australia February 2018

Western Australian ANW production for Korean and Japanese markets is estimated at 875,000t (ANW1..

WA Grains Industry Strategy 2025+

A $10 Billion Vision for the Future: WA Grains Industry Strategy 2025+ Following the fourth ..

Chemical Residues

GIWA supports the industry endorsed chemical residue and safety management practices in Growing Australian Grain 2018.

Growing Australian Grain March 2018 (3235 KB)

GIWA regularly collaborates on chemical residue issues with the National Residue Survey (NRS) which is funded by growers and administered by the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, the APVMA and the National Working Party for Grain Protection (NWPGP) which is funded by GRDC and administered by Grain Trade Australia.

GIWA currently holds one minor use permit which is valid to 31st March 2022, PER84040 for Trifluralin/Pre-Emergent Treatment in Oats for Suppression/Control of Certain Annual Grasses and Broadleaf Weeds on Oats.

GRDC fund a project called “Pesticides for Minor Uses in Grain” which identifies pesticides considered by industry to be essential for continued sustainable production of minor grain crops and then seeks to have them registered or permitted for use.

The latest list of Minor Use Permits for All Broad Acre Crops (Pulses, Oilseeds, Cereals, Other Crops, Legumes, Fallow, Grasshoppers and Locusts, Pasture, Bushland, Firebreaks and Rights of Way, Vertebrate Pests) current as at June 2017 which is issued by the consultants to the GRDC “Pesticides for Minor Uses in Grain” project can be found below.

Current Ag Pesticide Minor Use Permits all broad acre crops June 2017 (398 KB)

For further information regarding this project and Minor Use Permits in broad acre agriculture please contact the project’s consultants:

Steve Jones, email: smjones@aglignconsulting.com.au